Gil Brandt, still ruing the one that got away

Elway was drafted by the Baltimore Colts with the first overall pick in the 1983 NFL Draft, even though the quarterback had made it clear he didn’t want to play there. So I went to Colts head coach Frank Kush, whom I knew well, and asked him who I’d need to have a conversation with about trying to deal for Elway. Kush told me that he’d be handling it, so we made our pitch to him, and he said the Colts would get back to us. The next thing we knew, Elway had been traded to the Denver Broncos.

As it turned out, Kush wasn’t the man to talk to about Elway, because while we were busy trying to work something out with him, Colts owner Robert Irsay was reaching an agreement with Broncos owner Edgar Kaiser—and the future Hall of Fame quarterback slipped out of our grasp.

Poor Brandt; that's thirty years' worth of sleepless nights...

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Especially since no matter what he did, a bunch of those buttock impaired Hank Hills in the stands would have just sat there with a pissy "Roger the Dodger would have done it better" look on their homely faces.

Posted by Yahmule on 2013-06-20 17:23:51

Danny White went 62-30 at quarterback in Dallas and no man was ever hated more.

Posted by Yahmule on 2013-06-20 17:14:15

Amen.

Posted by Alaskan on 2013-06-20 16:21:29

The thought of Elway in a Cowboys uniform makes me gag, and would have done the same thing in 1983.